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The violent, violent suppression of the Nabi Saleh Protest by Israeli Occupation Forces![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To terrorize and cow the villagers The weekly Friday protests in Nabi Saleh against the theft of village land for the construction of the illegal Israeli "settler" colony of Halamish have the reputation as the most violent in the West Bank and yesterday's confirmed this hitherto perception: Once the peaceful demonstrators reached the line of army jeeps and soldiers blocking their passage, some were manhandled to the ground and coordinator of the protests; Bassem Tamimi received rough handling, later Jonathan Shapiro an Israeli with live conscience and strong for Palestine was violently arrested. Subsequently, the village suffered repeated army incursions until late in the evening with attendant IOF violence through copius amounts of indiscriminately fired tear gas and percussion grenades. Ostensibly, the raids were to arrest some stone throwing shabab - as on previous occurrences, they were never effected - but transparently, their ultimate aim is to terrorize and cow the villagers who, strongly supported by Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall, other Israelis, International Solidarity Movement activists and internationals fiercely resist the Occupation and now the latest ethnic cleansing threat to the existence of the tiny village of some 540 souls; the demolition of 10 homes closest to the colony to pave the way for the expansion of that amoebic obscenity.
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